[TowerTalk] square towers

[Pete Smith]

At 05:01 PM 1/25/04 +0000, Jim Jarvis wrote:
>I've requested pricing, but my expectation would be that
>this design will prove 30-50% more expensive than a triangular
>design of equivalent specification, delivered US domestic.
>
>OTOH, the lifting fixture is a neat idea...and might be able to
>be incorporated on a triangular tower, to facilitate assembly.
>
>This one is worth keeping an eye on.


As I recall, the prices being quoted at Dayton last spring were pretty 
stiff, even for an aluminum self-supporting tower.

What I'd like to see is someone with a more conventional self-supporting 
design, like maybe AN Towers, figure out a way to  run an elevator for the 
rotator, mast and antennas up the side on a track.  That would get around 
the main disadvantage of the Hazer design (having to drop and 
reconnect/retension guy wires) and be very neat, *if* it could be strong 
enough.


73, Pete N4ZR
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